429 



►Si.sal hemp, cultivation in Britisli CJuiana, 

 UO. 



— — in Egypt, 348. 



— — industry in the Ijalianias, 108, 

 233. 



- — — production in tlie Baliamas, Gl. 



— — — in British Ouiana, project 

 for, 95. 



— in Hawaii, 284. 



Soil inoculation, 14.j, l.jl, 



. — , movement of water in, 43. 



— requirements of the pine-apple, 324. 



— survey work in the United States, 21. 



— temperature, influence of forests on, 

 175. 



— , The, by A. D. Hall, 60. 



— , value of mulching, 76. 



Soils, absorption of salts by, 265. 



— , action of heat and antiseptics on, 



281. 

 — , catalase of, 218. 

 — , colour of, 216, 297. 



— for cacao, 292. 



— , lime and phosphates in, 313. 



— of Nevis, 199. 



— , treatment of in ' Orchard Cultivation 



in the West Indies', 177. 

 — , water held by different kinds of, 



165. 

 Sorrel, red, 388. 



Sourabaya, exhibition at, 158, 412. 

 South, F. W,, appointment as ilycologist, 



117. 

 South Africa, shipments of oranges from, 



108. 



— America, coffee disease in, 292. 

 Sow, points of, 291. 



Soy bean, 222. 



— — analysis of, 391. 



— — as green dressing crop 43. 



— — in Africa, 220. 



— . — — Manchuria, 185. 



— — — United States, 82. 

 Spathodea campanulata, seeding of, 355. 

 Spices of the tropics, 363. 



Spider, red, in Florida, 316. 



— — , remedies for, 316. 

 Sponge export from Bahamas, 412. 



— fisheries in the Philippines, 239. 

 Spraying, Bordeaux mixture for, 286. 



— for scale insects, 233. 

 Stables, floors for, 364. 



Starch manufacture from sweet potatos, 



73. 

 Steam cultivation at Jatnaica, 185. 

 Steamed bone meal, 185. 

 Stock and .scion, interaction of, 313. 



— at Barbados Industrial Exhibition, 7. 

 — , cocoa-nut meal a? food for, 44. 



— , cotton seed for, 294. 



— , — — meal as food for, 44. 



— , export from Tobago, 77. 



— , — — Carriacou, 114. 



— at St. Kitts agricultural show, 94. 

 — , molasses as a food for, 12. 



— , protection of, from Hies, 171. 

 — , raising of in Tobago, 111. 

 — , remedy for sore eyes, 268. 



Stock, rice as food for, 140. 



— , wild ipecacuanha and, 222, 261, 363. 

 415. 



Stockdale, F. A., appointed deputy Chair- 

 man, Tioard of Agriculture, British 

 Guiana, 92. 



— — — , ileparture for British 

 Guiana 39. 



Scrophanthus for coagulating rubber, 



393. 

 Students' Corner, 29, 45, 61, 77, 90, 



109, 12.5, 141, 157, 173, 189, 20.5, 



221, 237, 2.53, 269, 285, .301, 317, 



333, 349, 36.5, 381, 397, 413. 



— meetings in Antigua, 157. 

 Sugar beet crop of the U.S., 268. 



— effects of moisture on stored, 301. 



— in Porto Rico, 249. 



— — St. Lucia, 264. 



— scums, extraction of wax from, 360. 

 Sugar-cane, sucrose content of storm- 

 broken cane, 387. 



— — Uba variety of, 163. 



— — , underground stem of, 329. 



— — varieties in British Guiana, 

 195. 



— — , — — St. Kitts, ItoO. 



— — , water needed for develop- — 

 ment of, 211. 



— -— , weevil borer cif, 393. 



— — — in Natal, 163. 



Sugar Industry (Continued.): — 

 Bourbon cane, 211. 

 cane crop at Barbados, 1908, 124. 

 — farming in Trinidad, price of canes, 

 35, 76. 



central factories in Antigua, 123. 



— — at Jamaica, 44, 182. 

 cultivation of ratoon canes, 115. 

 imports into United States, 108. 

 in Hawaiian Islands, 195. 



— -Jamaica, 28. 



— Porto Rico, 154. 



— Queen.sland, 44. 

 International Congress of Applied 



Chemistry, 266. 

 new sugar companies in Jamaica, 



227. 

 of Formosa, 412. 

 sugar and molasses exptirts from I'ar- 



bados 92, 108, 156. 



— — — price of, at Barbados, 

 1909, 92. 



— crop ot British India, 211. 



— - — Cuba, 60. 



— — - • — Japan, 300. 



— -- — Madeira, 316. 



— — — Queen.sland, 300. 

 — , machinery for British Guiana, 



26. 



returns in Java, 1 2, 275. 



Nevis, 1909, 172. 



— , decay of the Bourbon variety, 1 — estates at Barbados, improved 

 83. machinery for, 35. 



— — experiments at Antigua, 323. 



— — — — Barbados, ] 9. 



— — — — British Gui- 

 ana, 293. 



— — ~ — St. Kitts, 350. 



— — — in the Leeward 

 Island.?, 1907 8, 99. 



— , farmer grown, in Trinidad, 

 92. 



— — , — — — prices 

 of, 35, 276. 



— — , frog hopper of, 204. 



— — harvester, a new, 83. 



— — importation and possible in- 

 troduction of plant diseases, 91. 



— — — , in British Guiana, 91. 



— — , inoculation experiments with, 

 in West Indies, 151. 



— — , manures for, at Barbados, 19. 



— — , — — , — Jamaica, 40. 



— — planting in (.'arib country, St. 

 Vincent, 76. 



— — , ratoons, cultivation of, 115. 



— — , root disease in Hawaii, 297. 



— — seedlings at Antigua and St. 

 Kitts, 67. 



Sugar-cane seedlings, the first at Barb; 

 dos, 266 



— D. 74, and D. 95, in ,i 307. 



in Mauritius, 332. 



— exports from Barbados, 252, 284. 

 — , — — British Guiana, 28, 37, 



108. 

 ~, — — Tobago, 77. 

 — , — — Trinidad, 153. 



— factory results in .Java, 371. 



— growing and manufacture in North- 

 ern India, 243. 



— , inversion of, while keeiiing, 307. 



— manufacture in St. Croix, 355. 



— production in Cuba, 83, 316. 



— — — Ecuador, 175. 



— ~ — India, 280. 



— — — Java, 268. 



— — — Madeira, 316. 

 — . -— — Mauritius, 332. 



— factories for beet, decreased number 

 in France, 76. 



— - - in Cuba, 220. 



— factory ash as a manure, 388. 

 -- from Antigua, report on, from Liver- 

 pool, 22. 



— , import into the United Kingd'jui, 

 332. 



— in Burma, 380. 



— — Cuba, 179. 

 i Sugars, production of gums fnjni, 



Louisiana, 121, 227. 



— — - — in Natal, 163. 



— — — — Queensland, 204. 

 Sugar Industry : — 



Antigua Sugar Factory, 51. 

 at Barbados, 35. 



Sul}ihate of ammonia, world's production 



of, 76. 

 Summary of recent information about 



fungi, 411. 

 Sundershah mango, 232. 

 Sunn-hemp in Madras, 284. 



